Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 28

"'Tis a glorious place, forsooth, that Connla holds among short-lived mortals awaiting the day of death.

Who acts: Connla, lived mortals · What happens: hold, await · To what, where: glorious place, lived mortals

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Connla, lived mortals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 place	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 forsooth	punct
8	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holds	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 holds	mark
11	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 holds	nsubj
12	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
13	among	among	ADP	_	17 mortals	case
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lived	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 short	punct
16	lived	lived	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mortals	amod
17	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holds	obl
18	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 mortals	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 awaiting	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	present	Connla	a glorious place not said here		lived mortals			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme among mortal=Location
2	await in a quote	gerund	lived mortals not said here				day		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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